Chapter 1151: Chapter 150: Giant Beast (End)
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The Heart Monkey Staff embedded in the heart of the deep-sea giant beast suddenly expanded,
compressing muscles, pushing aside blood vessels, and flattening bones.
An immense amount of blood spectacularly splattered in all directions, countless pieces of flesh slid along the Heart Monkey, or directly slipped off the edge of the wound, plummeting towards the sea.
"Roar..."
The deep-sea giant beast showed astonishing vitality; it didn’t die immediately despite such damage,
The Venomous Woman’s twin-horned head hung low, glancing at the staff piercing through her chest, swinging a claw to smash the head of the Obsidian Mecha,
The three long tails furiously twisted, crushing the chest of the Obsidian Model,
The whole mech was only connected by its relatively slender spine between the upper and lower body.
Boom!
The Heart Monkey Staff held by the right hand of the Obsidian Model expanded again,
The deep-sea giant beast spewed a splash of blue blood from its mouth, its massive body trembled violently, and the A.T. Force Field flickered on its surface,
The raised right claw could not muster the strength to swing down forcefully,
Falling weakly into the sea, raising waves.
Sizzle sizzle——
On the damaged and battered body of the Obsidian Model, everywhere were sparks and burning flames from exploding electronic components,
The plant vines filled with cracks grew rapidly,
filling the gaps, healing the damage, extinguishing the flames, replacing the original mechanical components, maintaining the mech’s operational capacity.
Now the Obsidian Model, rather than being a bipedal humanoid walking weapon,
was more like mechanical armor infested and controlled by swamp plants.
Within just a few seconds,
The injuries on the mech’s surface were healed by swamp plants,
and in the cockpit’s broadcast system, Li Ang’s calm and indifferent voice rang out, "Dare to damage my mech?
Do you know how much effort, blood, and time I spent to make it move?"
I know, adding it all up only amounts to 18 hours, a normal person’s two days of work time, if it were a sweatshop or a soulless modern internet company, it might be a day’s work time.
Dawn, Black Trojan, and other insiders couldn’t help but show strange expressions, saying nothing.
The surface wounds covered and healed on the Obsidian Model casually raised its left hand, grabbing the three long tails of the deep-sea giant beast piercing through its chest,
with a simple twist.
The sea beast’s long tail, deprived of A.T. Force Field protection, twisted and deformed like gluten, snapping with a crack.
The Obsidian Model broke free from the penetration of the sea beast’s long tail, stepping onto the partially submerged forepaw of the Venomous Woman,
vines immediately went to fill and repair the chest injury.
"So be it,"
the Obsidian Mecha shook the blue blood off its left hand, gripping the Heart Monkey Staff, gazing at the closing orange-yellow beast eyes of the deep-sea giant beast, calmly saying: "Now, you can die."
The words had barely left its mouth,
The Heart Monkey Staff contracted and became finer again,
under the swing of the Obsidian Mecha, from bottom to top, like a slender blade, sliced open the deep-sea giant beast’s chest, neck, and head.
Slap slap—
A mass of blood and shredded meat, lifted by the swing of the Heart Monkey Staff, scattered like flowers in the air,
creating a faint rainbow above the sea before plummeting into the ocean.
"The blood of alien civilizations can refract sunlight, huh."
Li Ang in the cockpit calmly put away the Heart Monkey Staff, listening to the abrupt system prompt.
[Deep-sea giant beast killed 3/3]
[Mission target completed, teleportation back in 5 minutes]
[Teleport early?]
[Yes/No]
Li Ang did not hesitate to refuse early teleportation, turning to look at the approaching Dawn.
"This mission..."
Dawn opened her mouth, not having finished speaking, before Li Ang interrupted, "You and Black Trojan can go back first, I have unfinished business."
"Huh?"
Dawn looked puzzled, "What business?"
Li Ang did not explain, pressed the cockpit button, turned the battered vector thruster system to full power, combined with swamp god power to command the vines,
propelling the Obsidian Model downwards.
The Obsidian Mecha plunged into the turbulent sea, pulling the corpse of the already dead Venomous Woman.
This deep-sea giant beast was too large, its weight was just too heavy,
After A.T. Force Field stopped running, the sea beast’s weight quickly crushed its body,
breaking bones, exploding muscles, squeezing blood like an apple pressed by a juicer.
The Obsidian Mecha tugged at the rapidly collapsing deep-sea giant beast’s corpse, diving quickly.
The ongoing sea beast/mecha battle around continued,
but the death of the Venomous Woman seemed to have caused some sort of collective weakening to the deep-sea biota, and the situation was gradually stabilizing.
Li Ang accelerated incessantly, ignoring the deep-sea creatures and human mechs trying to rush upwards around, charging unyieldingly toward the rift in the abyss of the trench.
"What’s he up to?"
In the sky blimp, Stack and other people who witnessed the scene through the newly arrived underwater unmanned surveillance sub were equally shocked and confused.
The space tunnel built by the deep-sea civilization was shielded with lightning thunder and A.T. Force Field,
allowing only exit, not entry,
Human factions tried numerous times during monster wars to enter the internal range of the space tunnel, but never succeeded,
and in all past cases, there was not a single case of "deep-sea creatures returning to the deep-sea civilization home planet through the space tunnel."
Therefore, all presumptions by PPDC on the deep-sea civilization are mere assumptions and conjectures without evidence.
"Can we reach him? Tell him to stop; he’ll crash on the tunnel!"
Stack roared urgently,
Newton, Hermann, and others hurriedly activated remote communication, but simply couldn’t connect to the Obsidian Model Mecha.
Bubble bubble——
The Obsidian Model dragged the remains of the sea beast, charged toward the abyss of the trench,
The cockpit echoed with bubble sounds caused by high-speed maneuvering in the seawater.
Li Ang stared at the increasingly close red crevice, expressionless,
as the mech was about to crash into the crevice,
suddenly operated, gripping the Venomous Woman’s head, piercing the pineal body with numerous vines.
Buzz——
A faint, barely visible golden radiance rose on the Venomous Woman’s body,
enveloping both, her body and the Obsidian Mecha.
Whoosh!
The sea beast and mecha simultaneously disappeared into the crimson rift, vanishing without a trace, leaving only bubbles above the rift,
and the stunned and speechless Stack and others on the blimp bridge.
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Is this the space tunnel?
The vector noozle mouth on the back of the Obsidian Mecha gently emitted flames, maneuvering the mech slowly to turn, surveying the surroundings.
The space behind the crimson rift was wider than imagined,
like a circular corridor with a diameter of over two thousand meters,
The sides of the corridor weren’t smooth, neither metal nor stone, filled with soft recesses and bulges,
evoking thoughts of long, stick-like churros.
The surroundings were filled with seawater of conventional composition, littered with mysterious light sources,
With red, blue, purple, and white as the main colors, accented with a little green light, it resembles the time tunnel experienced in "Doraemon" while driving a time machine.
"The seawater here is no different from that in Manila Bay.
Gravity still takes effect, dragging the mech and the sea beast’s body downwards."
Li Ang consistently remains focused, observing the large-scale space transmission technology around him with interest,
while being prepared at any moment to use the teleportation system of the kill game to return to the real world.
"I guessed correctly; the reason PPDC couldn’t explore deep-sea civilization earlier
is because the space channel of the deep-sea civilization has special functions,
just like a cell membrane can identify foreign substances and choose components to enter and exit,
the space channel can also control the entry and exit of substances.
Only objects with the original deep-sea civilization A.T. force field are allowed to use the space channel.
And the A.T. force field used by PPDC is the product of the fusion between human drivers and the pineal body of deep-sea creatures, which isn’t pure."
Li Ang silently ponders, grabbing the floating corpse of the sea beast, swiftly heading towards the end of the channel.
This segment of the space channel is still primarily composed of seawater,
Li Ang charges to the end of the channel with his mech,
and as before, uses a weak electric current to control the incomplete death of the Venomous Woman’s brain, releasing an A.T. force field.
The door at the end of the channel is ring-like with four flaps,
resembling the beak of a marine creature.
Upon sensing the Venomous Woman’s A.T. force field, the beak-like gate slowly opens, revealing the space behind.
Beyond is another luminous corridor,
but the seawater is warmer, the pressure is higher, and some alkaline solution—liquid ammonia—begins to appear in the seawater.
Li Ang understands inwardly and continues to push the Venomous Woman’s corpse forward rapidly,
bathed in bizarre and colorful lights, passing through gate after gate resembling beaks.
"PPDC scientists were not wrong in predicting that the deep-sea civilization is indeed made of amino-based life forms.
These spaces divided by beak-like gates
are actually independent compartments for pressurizing and depressurizing."
Li Ang silently thinks, "The mother planet of deep-sea civilization must be a planet with a strong atmospheric pressure.
Due to the enormous pressure, the boiling point of liquid ammonia changes from -34°C to 98°C, and the liquid temperature range is expanded to 175°C,
allowing liquid ammonia to exist on the planet’s surface without freezing or evaporating.
The race of the deep-sea civilization lives in the warm ocean of liquid ammonia,
relying on cesium chloride and rubidium chloride, whose metal element solubility is higher, as essential life supplies to regulate the cell membrane potential in their bodies—
just like humans need to ingest potassium and sodium elements.
At the same time, because the acidity and alkalinity of the same substance in the liquid ammonia system and the water system are completely different, water reacts with liquid ammonia to produce NH+ ions, showing strong acidity,
water, the source of life on Earth, is sheer poison for amino-based life forms.
They must use compartments to isolate seawater from Earth’s oceans,
and use carbon-based biological bodies to host the brains of deep-sea giant beasts—otherwise, the deep-sea giant beast would be dissolved immediately upon contact with seawater."
As Li Ang continues to ponder alone,
the Obsidian Mecha and the remains of the Venomous Woman also pass through the final beak-like valve.
Just like a diver jumping into a pool, the Obsidian Mecha falls into a liquid ocean vastly different from seawater.
Sizzle—
The plant vines on the surface of the mecha are corroded by the omnipresent liquid ammonia, producing slight bubbles,
while the mech’s AI system reports danger alerts.
Li Ang ignores the AI system’s alarm and focuses on controlling the mech, scanning the surroundings.
Light,
brown-red light fills the surrounding space.
This is an exceptionally wide sea area,
the water is warm and corrosive, with slightly lower viscosity than water.
Above is an extraordinarily thick layer of rock,
at the center of the rock layer is embedded the beak-like valve Li Ang just passed through.
And beneath the rock layer stands a group of buildings in the seawater.
Indeed, a group of buildings.
From a human perspective,
the structures built in the liquid ammonia ocean are exceedingly peculiar,
with the tallest being several cone-like structures
divided into layers with slanted angles between floors, resembling fish scales,
each floor equipped with organ-like glands emitting blue light—just like the luminous glands within deep-sea creatures.
On the exterior of the cone-like buildings is a ring of suspended structures.
These ring structures are like hula hoops, covered externally by a film that isolates seawater,
internally covered by a nylon-like mesh structure, with unknown specific functions.
Additionally, there are several other types of buildings,
such as ones raised high like Earth’s bamboo shoots or England’s famous dish "Stargazy pie";
ones flat like a crab shell, partially buried in sand;
ones lined with holes, resembling dried cactus shapes;
these buildings are bizarre, emitting various lights,
even artists in the real world could barely depict them in drunken dreams.
Li Ang surveys the alien environment around him,
though strictly speaking, he has visited alien planets more than once and even possesses a portal to an unknown, mysterious Portal Planet,
but this liquid ammonia sea area,
and the unique civilization nurtured by its distinctive geographical conditions,
still manages to astonish him.
Oh yes, and the deep-sea creatures...
Li Ang controls the mech to look downwards, seeing at the sea bottom and among building floors some peculiar creatures standing.
They have torso and limb structures similar to humans,
but with longer, slim heads and gray-white skin,
with four black bean-like eyes located where the head should be.
Some deep-sea creatures, or deep-sea people,
run away in terror upon seeing the appearance of the Obsidian Mecha,
the gill-like organs on the sides of their heads vibrating quickly, seemingly communicating with others,
while some larger deep-sea people quickly run to certain rooms in buildings, extracting weapon-like harpoon guns.
"Is this probably the arms factory of the deep-sea civilization?"
Li Ang surveys the area and sees skeletal frames similar to deep-sea giant beasts on top of some pineal body structures, along with giant cranes filling the framework with muscles and blood vessels.
"The deep-sea civilization here mass-produces giants like the Venomous Woman and Ridgeback Turtle, deploying them through space channels to Earth’s seas.
Since it’s not a home turf battle, they can let the deep-sea giant beasts wreak havoc."
The countdown for the kill game’s teleportation draws nearer,
Li Ang casually controls the mech, tightening his fists, and absorbs Swamp God Power from the Divine Mark.
The plant vines on the surface of the Obsidian become extremely lively,
encasing the mechanical armor deeply, gradually transforming the Steel Giant into its full-powered plant Titan form.
"Heh heh."
Li Ang smiles, looking down at the thousands of deep-sea people fleeing in panic like ants, and murmurs, "Even though I don’t know your specific reasons for invading Earth,
but since you’ve come here..."
